Human rights

RFL/RE – An 84-year-old Iranian-American who has been detained in Iran for more than five years has undergone surgery to clear a blockage in an artery to his brain, his lawyer said on October 26.The surgery on Baquer Namazi took place in a hospital in Iran three weeks after the United States called on Iran to allow Namazi to travel …

Iranwire – Those unfortunate enough to have experience of Iranian prisons are unanimous on the poor quality and exorbitant prices of prison store goods, which they are effectively forced to buy from. Convicts are convinced that the canteen food is deliberately so badly cooked that they’re left with no choice but to spend more in the shops, creating a captive market. This …

Iran-HRM – Honor killings in Iran are on the rise, despite ongoing protests and activism. In fact, the clerical regime perpetuates and systematically promotes various forms of violence against women. There are no exact statistics on honor killings in Iran, but in recent months there have been numerous reports of these cases in the media and cyberspace. In December 2019, …

Iranwire – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran has lamented ongoing and widespread human rights violations in Iran, saying that human rights abusers in the country are rewarded rather than held accountable. Speaking at a virtual meeting of a dedicated committee of the UN General Assembly Committee on Monday, Javaid Rehman said the state of human rights in …

Iranwire – Roya Jalali, an Iranian-Kurdish environmental and civil rights activist, has been sentenced to two years in prison by Branch 1 of Sanandaj Revolutionary Court in Iranian Kurdistan. According to the Kurdish news agency Kurdpa, Jalali, a member of the Environmental Society of Green Kurdistan, was accused of membership of a Kurdish opposition party. She was first arrested on February 2, 2020, when security …

Iran-HRM – According to a lawsuit a picture of which has been published in recent weeks by a faculty member at the University of Tehran, the criminal court sentenced a father of three small children to 40 lashes and prison for stealing three packets of cashew nuts, among other punishments. The Iranian regime is one of the few states that …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared who has spent more than 12 years in prison without one day of furlough, is under increasing pressure since her prison exile to Semnan Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared has been under increasing pressure since being prison exiled to Semnan Prison. She was …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Following his family’s complaint about the death in custody of juvenile offender, Danial Zeinolabedini on 2 April 2020 in Miandoab Prison, a trial has been scheduled to investigate his death on 19 December 2021. However, security and judicial officers tried to force his father to retract his complaint through coercion and force. While suicide was ruled …

VOA – The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British Iranian held in Iran since 2016, began a hunger strike Sunday to denounce the British government for “also letting us down” and failing to secure her release. Richard Ratcliffe plans to spend the night in a tent outside the Foreign Office, a week after his wife lost her appeal on a …

Iranwire – Arsalan Yazdani, a Baha’i resident of Tehran, was recently released from prison after his sudden arrest by security agents on September 1 this year. The graphic designer has taken to Instagram to explain what happened – and the basic error by the arresting officers that justified his being taken away. Yazdani explained that during the search of his home, officers …